User Reviews

Reviews by Brewsmith:

From a 22 oz bottle purchased locally poured into an imperial pint. Piney and citrus hops with a little sweetmess from the malt in the nose. Deep brick red color with a small, tight tan head. Flavor is very toasty in the front with bread crust-like flavors from the malt. Balanced slightly to the bitter. A fairly straight forward and easy drinking amber. Maybe a little too long on the shelf, though.

Pours a clear amber color with a one-finger off-white head. The head recedes into a patchy layer on top leaving solid lacing.

Smells of lightly toasted caramel malts with hints of floral hops.

Tastes similar to how it smells. Grainy caramel malt flavors up front are joined by floral and slightly earthy hop flavors. These flavors carry through to a slightly muddled bitter finish.

Mouthfeel is good. It's a bit on the thin side but with solid carbonation.

Drinkability is OK. I didn't have a problem finishing my glass but I'm not too sure about another.

Overall this was an alright amber but I prefer them with richer malts or more hops. This one is right in the middle and does neither exceptionally well. Still, it's not a terrible beer and I wouldn't turn one down if offered.

Red Frog pours a clear, deep copper colored body beneath a 1/2" head of off-white foam that holds well and leaves wide rings of sticky lace about the glass.

The nose is clean, and suggests a caramelish malt that's tinged with an edge of sweetness. Some apple-like fruitiness is also present, and behind that there's some floral and grassy hops. It's fresh and inviting.

Across the palate it's medium-light bodied with a moderate carbonation that gives just a gentle tingle to the tongue.

The flavor is as the nose suggests, with the yeasty fruitiness standing out. It's malty, yeasty/fruity, and then hoppy. There's a nice caramelish balance to the malt, teetering between light and dark, sugary and bready, and lightly toasty. There's also a hint of darker roastiness that sometimes appears. The bitterness is perfectly balanced, as are the flavors as they quickly cross the palate. It finishes fairly short with some lingering maltiness beneath grassy, floral, and leafy hops.

Pours a dark clear amber with a thick pillowy white head with thick lacing. Looks great.

Big assertive perfume nose of bananas and apricots with tones of pineapple. Nice nose. All around beautiful and promising.

Very thin mouth feel and body. The nose promises much more than the mouth delivers. Thin body, thin flavors although with a hop character and finish. This one is all nose. Very short finish. Wouldn't try this one again.

Having never seen anything from this brewery, and my girlfriend being a red ale lover, I decided to pick this up. Wasn't bad...but nothing too special.

Basically, this is your standard red ale. Hops are slightly more aggressive than some of your boring brewpub versions, with a definite lean toward the piny, but only barely keep it from being fully boring. Malts and carbonation are relatively sharp.

This is just not memorable. Not bad, but in a week, I'll forget anything about what this tasted like - aside from it being boring.

Overall, not recommended - and at $5/bomber, there are many better choices.

Clear beer that is darker than red and is more of a mahogany brown with a dark tan/light brown colored head. I would have to stick with my observations and call this a shade of brown.

Smell is sweet and malty with lots of fruity aromas. Lots of fruity esters from the yeast and some woody aromas from the hops used. Fairly neutral hop blend is used all I can pick out is some Fuggles and no citrus or pine at all.

The taste starts out woody but a little sweet and a faint patent malt flavor. Taste starts out sweetish and fruity but quickly changes to woody and bitter. Flavor is something like a mellowed out Brown Ale.

Mouthfeel is good.

Picture of a straight 4s beer. No weaknesses but no outstanding parts either. Probably would order this if at the brewery.

Poured a deep and clear orange color with a small sized off white head. Aromas of caramel with some citrus. Tastes of caramel, light citrus, and biscuit. Malty. Nothing earth shattering, but enjoyable for what it is!

Poured from a 22oz bottle, the color was brown with a reddish tint. There was a thick head that formed after the pour and stayed around for a while. I thought this beer tasted pretty clean for an ale and it was definitely different than I was expecting. Not a whole lot of sweet malt flavor, actually the hops were more prominent than expected, but I was not disappointed by this, a very well balance beer. The mouthfeel was a little thin, but overall a very drinkable beer. I'm not really to much of a red ale fan, so maybe that is why I like it, a little pricey though.

22oz brown bottle with some silk screened looking graphics. Just started seeing this beer pop up at my local haunts. Poured into a stemmed pils glass it forms a sea foam sturdy tan head. Amber body. Rocky lace left behind.

There are some lighter underlying fruitiness throughout. The theme though is some roasty malts that is eventually cut down by some astringency and bitterness. Mouthfeel is thin at first until it sharpens up towards the end. After being dissapointed in their DIPA this was a nice comeback effort and I've regained my interest in sampling further offerings from this brewer.

Notes: This reaches a nice balance with enough snap to keep you coming back for another pull. Solid.

The 2013 brewing of this has a new label and seems to be an improvement over some of the earlier years. It's the standard Red/Amber stuff but less murky and leafy. This pours a lovely coppery amber color in the big New Belgium snifter. Pleasingly spritzy on the tongue with plenty of bubbles and lacing in the glass. Some grainy aromas with a spicy hint.

Flavor of warm malty flavors with an herbal hoppy taste. Some aromatics with hints of pine and resins. Tangy and even a little hot. The sudsy mouthfeel lasts to the end. A moderately bitter finish. A better than average Red, though less hopped-up than some might like. From the 22 oz bottle purchased at Beer Revolution in Oakland.

A - Pours a reddish brown with a big foamy off white head. Slightly hazy, but not quite opaque.

S - Sugary malt with a hoppy backbone. Hints of apple, fig and molasses. The nose is sweet, but not overly so, the hops bring it back in balance.

T - The roasted malts play nice on the tongue, providing initial sweetness. The hops make their presence known and firm up this beer. There is a drying effect on the tongue and the aftertaste is slightly bitter.

M - Medium bodied with high carbonation. This one is almost overly carbonated. Seemed to get better as the beer warmed up though.

D - This is a nice easy drinking beer, that has the sweetness of an Amber, but the hop presence of a good Red Ale. A solid brew to kick back and relaxe with, I could drink a couple of these.

Floral citrus hops upfront, loads of fresh baked bread and caramel malt sweetness. Very malty nose that is anchored by the citrus hops, which I felt could have been a little more prominent.

Taste mimics the nose quite well with caramel/sugar sweetness first noticeable with a clean and crisp bitterness. Slight orange taste as well. Very well balanced even if fairly one noted. Sweet aftertaste.

The mouthfeel is good for the style with a medium degree of carbonation and a light body; definitely enhances the drinkability.
Overall very quaffable with no lingering harshness.